Because at least for me getting a shared folder to work was a total pain in the ass. Virtualbox just worked in that regard.

The problem is bots

Kodi as a front end to jellyfin works great

For local testing: build and run tests on whatever computer I’m developing on.

For deployment: I have a self hosted gitlab instance in a kubernetes cluster. It comes with a registry all setup. Push the project, let the cicd pipeline build, test, and deploy through staging into prod.